I'll be appearing at MoCCA Arts Festival in New York this weekend. It's not some kind of chocolate coffee festival (although, I'd probably get a table at that, too) it's the Society Of Illustrators' "Museum of Cartoon and Comic Art" Festival.

I'll be at the NCS table and doing a Wacom Demo on Saturday. Come by and say hi! Buy a New Yorker cartoon or have something else drawn. If you say you heard about it here I'll knock off 20%.

The MoCCA Arts Festival is a 2-day multimedia event, Manhattan's largest independent comics, cartoon and animation festival, drawing over 7,000 attendees each year. With 400 exhibiting artists displaying their work, award-winning honorees speaking about their careers and artistic processes and other featured artists conducting workshops, lectures and film screenings, our Festival mission accelerates the advancement of the Society's broader mission to serve as Manhattan's singular cultural institution promoting all genres of illustration through exhibitions, programs and art education.

This coming Sunday the cartoonists are descending on Philly!! Read below for more...

The Nation’s Finest Cartoonists To Draw For The Public at the Philadelphia Free Library on May 27th, 2018

PHILADELPHIA – On Sunday, May 27, 2018, some 75 members of the National Cartoonist Society will come to Philadelphia’s Free Library in a unique free event where they will meet with, and draw for, the public. It will most likely be the largest concentration of cartoonists drawing free for the public anywhere in America this year.

Support for this event is being provided by the Free Library of Philadelphia and The Philadelphia Inquirer. It is tentatively scheduled to take place from 1-4 PM.

It’s all part of the National Cartoonist Society’s annual Reuben Awards Weekend taking place in Philadelphia May 25-27. The National Cartoonists Society is the world’s largest and most prestigious organization of professional cartoonists. It was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the troops. They found that they enjoyed each other’s company and decided to get to- gether on a regular basis. Today, the NCS membership roster includes over 500 of the world’s major cartoonists, working in many branches of the profession, including newspaper comic strips and pan- els, comic books, editorial cartoons, animation, gag cartoons, greeting cards, advertising, magazine and book illustration and more.The Reuben Awards have been called the “Oscars Of Cartooning” and this weekend will draw the best of the profession to Philadelphia.

At the event – to be held in the Main Lobby of the Free Library – cartoonists sit behind tables and fans can stroll up, talk to the creators and get a small cartoon, doodle or autograph from their favorite artists. There will be cartoonists from the newspaper comics section, from the graphic novel world, from the pages of the New Yorker, from MAD magazine, from popular animation studios, from the movie animation world, from web comics, from graphic novels, from children’s books and more.

You will also be able to buy books and materials directly from the creators and have them auto- graphed right in front of you. And people will be able to browse the Free Library’s impressive collec- tion of cartoon art and books as well.

Here is just a partial list of the cartoonists scheduled to appear with more being added weekly until the event: